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Writeups.org is an encyclopaedia of characters in genre fiction — comic books, video games, action movies, etc. It offers illustrated, researched profiles. These also include technical data for role-players. If you need a robust understanding of a character’s abilities, personality, history, etc. this is *the* place to be.
The leader of the Graveyard Faction, a convenient quartet of generally low-powered super-mercenaries.
Telekinetic control over barbed wire.
One of the most famous characters in the Soul Calibur fighting video games. Magical whip-sword, martial arts, alchemy.
As of January of 2019, this profile was rewritten, updated, upgraded. Generally, we’ve made it more well-rounded.
A made-up heroic fantasy character, inspired by minor Heretic/Hexen-like video game Ziggurat.
Young legless alchemist with a thousand grudges, and a magical arsenal. As the song goes, odds are she won’t live to see tomorrow.
A strange werebear, and a Russian special operative. Seen in Suicide Squad.
As of January of 2019, this profile has been overhauled and got overbearing M&M stats.
One of ’em video game guides we occasionally do during our breaks. Warframe has a reputation for being hard to learn and… yeah, it’s not unearned.
So here’s a “what I wish I knew when I started” space guide.
Humble Bundle is now offering a Dynamite Comics bundle of digital comics, starting at $1. It has many, many of the geeky things. Check the post for a partial list of stuff (because listing everything that’s in the bundle was too long).
This continues our huge chronological series about Carol Danvers (aka Captain Marvel, aka Ms. Marvel). This covers her early Warbird career, from 1998 to 2000.
As of February of 2019, this profile was entirely redone. New airframe, new avionics, new engine, new nose emblem, etc..
Creepy undead tentacled maritime eye monsters seen in a 1954 Astonishing comic book, from Atlas Comics.
One of our occasional video gaming guides, since I have to take breathers at some points…
This one is about using free Windows speech recognition software to input commands whilst playing video games. This is primarily useful for persons with low or diminished manual dexterity.
As of January of 2019, wrote an addendum about using this in a shooter (namely Warframe).
An ad-hoc pair of tactical operatives for the Global Frequency, from Warren Ellis’ most excellent comics.
Gunpowder smell ! Muzzle flashes ! Romance ! Web consulting !
A visual guide to the Black Widow character profiles on writeups.org, since there’s now a fair few.
An unreasonably thorough explanation about the Black Widow (Natalia Romanova) from the origins to the end of the Great Patriotic War. Buckle up, it’s something of a ride.
As of January of 2019, this profile has received yet more polishing, and was cleft due to length.
Part the second of our beautiful and deadly character profile for Natalia Romanova.
This one covers 1946-1965, but in practice it mostly corresponds to her earliest Marvel appearances as a femme fatale after Tony Stark’s industrial assets. Or at least, what he insists are industrial assets.
The Hell’s Belles are a convenient mercenary quartet with minor powers. They fought X-Factor that one time. Shrew left the team, though.
As of January of 2019, this profile has been overhauled and received furry M&M stats. Which concludes the upgrade for the Hell’s Belles.
As with every year, we are skipping one update – the first third of January one. So y’all enjoy any relevant celebrations or lack thereof.
Loghain Mac Tir is one of the major characters in Dragon Age: Origins. He’s unusually interesting as video game antagonists go.
This first profile covers his early life and the Fereldan war of independence, as chronicled in the The Stolen Throne prequel novel.
This evil Volkswagen Beetle appeared in Disney’s Herbie the Love Bug 1997 remake, which may be a bit obscure now.
Unexpectedly, it’s got guns and is scary (by Disney standards).
The famous Big Bad in early Street Fighter video games. Super-martial-artist, crime lord, technologist, psychic.
As of December of 2018, Tom harnessed his dreaded Psycho Power and punched this old profile of his into shape.
Also, we’re now using the US version of the names since sticking to the Japanese one was more confusing.
Continuing our coverage for the particularly cool Global Frequency comics by Warren Ellis et al..
John Stark is a field agent who seems to combine Special Forces military skills with some sort of police or intelligence experience.
The Hell’s Belles are a convenient mercenary quartet with minor powers. They fought X-Factor that one time.
As of December of 2018, this has been overhauled and stealth-M&Mified.
A colourful character from the movie Snatch, played by Brad Pitt. A modern tribal nomad in Britain who’s also one hell of a bare-knuckles boxer.
These are old notes. Yet as of December of 2018, Pawsplay roamed in and added some punchy M&M stats.
Carol Danvers during much of the 1980s and 1990s, when she was the space-powerful Binary. That’s the space era between being Ms. Marvel and being Warbird. This profile is part of a big dang chronological series about Carol.
As of space December of space 2018, this profile was entirely overhauled.
The second half of our full profile for Maric Theirin, the rightful King of Ferelden, as he appears in Dragon Age prequel novel The Stolen Throne, by David Gaider.
As of December of 2018 I redid the portrait. Since I was quite unhappy about my first attempt.
A memetics and xenolinguistics expert on the Global Frequency. Which was some of Warren Ellis’ best work in comics, really.
The once-traditional page with links toward other web sites of interest for writeups.org readers. Man, those were the days. Disco and bell bottoms from floor to ceiling, strewth.
As of late 2018, this was overhauled.
One sharp spy and assassin (or “bard”, as they say in Orlais). She appears in the Dragon Age prequel novel, The Stolen Throne.
Katriel played a critical role in the Fereldan War of Liberation… and, in a way, beyond.
The Hell’s Belles are a convenient mercenary quartet with minor powers. They fought X-Factor that one time.
As of December of 2018, this profile was overhauled and received piping hot M&M stats.
Vinnie Jones’ character in the movie Snatch. Tough-as-nails London underworld enforcer with a big pistol.
As of December of 2018, Pawsplay swaggered in and added some .50 calibre M&M stats.
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This team profile covers the original New Mutants as they were early on – a sort of “Year One” era. It’s best to read this before the individual profiles.
As of December of 2018, this profile was revised and expanded and corrected. Y’know, our usual overhauling work. So much work.